Translated, the text in Dutch on the sign at the settlement excavation site of the former V.O.C. trading post along the Chao Phraya River in Ayutthaya, reads: ‘Here stood from 1634 until 1767 the warehouse and offices of the United East Indian Company’.

Note that the word factory (Dutch: factorij) at the time referred to a trading post, i.e. a warehouse and office of an overseas commercial enterprise, and not to what is understood by the modern term, while the date 1767 is the year in which Ayutthaya was destroyed by the Burmese.